“Clean economy company CEOs should be really encouraged by these findings,” says Michael Casey, President of cleantech PR firm Tigercomm. “They are the latest data set showing that demand for what they are offering is getting baked into consumer preferences. The phony controversies of Solyndra and 'Climategate' of the last decade are fading. The critics and doubters are losing. ”

Here are five stories worth reading today (8/13/15) A new report released by NREL finds that “wind is poised to become a dominant and possibly the primary source of electricity in the U.S,” according to Greentech Media. “After the Environmental Protection Agency released its groundbreaking...

Here are five recommended reads for today (8/6/15) “There has been a lot of media discussion lately about the ‘winners and losers’ from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan, which will fight climate change by placing the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from...

Here are five recommended reads for today (8/4/15) “Subsidies for fossil fuels amount to $1,000 (£640) a year for every citizen living in the G20 group of the world’s leading economies, despite the group’s pledge in 2009 to phase out support for coal, oil and...

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We agree with the conclusion reached by PV Magazine, that although growth in renewable power in the United States is increasingly driven by non-RPS factors, "[t]his does not mean that RPS policies are not important."

Here are some key points from a new study by the Brattle Group for NRDC, entitled "Advancing Past 'Baseload' to a Flexible Grid," which argues that far from being a problem, a higher share of clean energy is actually a great opportunity for a wide variety of reasons.

In sum, the future looks extremely bright for clean energy, and for cleantech more broadly. The question isn't whether these sectors will grow rapidly, but simply how rapidly they'll grow. On that, we'd argue that EIA is far too conservative (or pessimistic, if you prefer), while BNEF is quite possibly too conservative as well, although they appear to be much closer to the mark than EIA's typically bearish-on-renewables, bullish-on-fossil-fuels forecasts.

According to a new report by the Energy Storage Association (ESA) and GTM Research, the U.S. energy storage industry is on fire, having just "deployed 71 MW of energy storage in Q1 2017...up 276% from the 18.9 MW deployed in Q1 2016," and with a lot more growth on the way.

See below for video of Chris Brown of Vestas, keynoting the opening session on day two of WINDPOWER 2017, concluding today in Anaheim, CA. According to Brown, who is completing his tenure as Chair of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the next five years will be the "best five years of your life" for the wind power industry.

But wind and other major cleantech sectors rely on distribution-only or distribution-mostly strategies that leave most of the marketing communications (“marcom”) power of these tools on idle. This year, we looked at why that happens. A few external drivers explain a lot.